This week's highlights
Join the new ELIXIR Biocuration Focus Group Kick-off meeting
This Wednesday 6 October 2021 | Virtual, 17:00-18:00 CEST
This meeting is open to everyone at ELIXIR and other invited participants.
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Calendar and call-in details
GBIF has published a new guide on sharing DNA-derived occurrence data
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has recently published a new guide on how to effectively share DNA-derived species occurrence data. The guide was developed in consultation with ELIXIR, as well as many other partners.
Read the guide
Recommended reads of the week
PlasmiR: A Manual Collection of Circulating microRNAs of Prognostic and Diagnostic Value
An ELIXIR Greece paper
Only recently have the important biomarker capacities of microRNAs (miRNAs) in blood samples during disease been revealed. Details regarding potential discriminatory miRNAs against numerous pathologic conditions are dispersed across articles, while existing resources that catalogue miRNA abundance in blood samples are not tailored to biomarker research. This study presents the meticulous manual curation of more than 200 articles that specifically interrogate the biomarker potential of miRNAs in whole blood, serum, or plasma.
Read more...
Mechanistic models of signalling pathways deconvolute the glioblastoma single-cell functional landscape
An ELIXIR Spain paper
Single-cell RNA sequencing is revealing an unexpectedly large degree of heterogeneity in gene expression levels across cell populations. However, little is known on the functional consequences of this heterogeneity and the contribution of individual cell fate decisions to the collective behaviour of the tissues these cells are part of. Here, we use mechanistic modelling of signalling circuits, which reveals a complex functional landscape at the single-cell level.
Read more...
Updates from Nodes
ELIXIR-DE releases new brochure
The brochure outlines the main tasks and reports on the latest developments of the German Node.
Read the brochure
Norwegian SARS-CoV-2 sequences now openly available in ENA
In collaboration with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), ELIXIR Norway has implemented technical solutions that prepare the SARS-CoV-2 sequence data for export to ENA. These efforts are maintained as part of the latest uplift to the H2020 project ELIXIR-CONVERGE.
Did you know? 10% of all raw reads in ENA are now SARS-CoV-2 and the open data doubles every 3 months.
Read the article
ELIXIR-UK announces 7 new services
Last week, FlyBase, NEOF, FAIRcookbook, KnetMiner, COPO, VEuPathDB and WorkflowHub became ELIXIR-UK services after successfully meeting the strict criteria.
Read the news
Updates from Communities
Help the Galaxy Training Network improve their courses and materials
Got a minute? The Galaxy Training Network would like to get feedback from instructors on the use of Galaxy for training, the preparation needed but also on the Galaxy Training Material.
This survey should take less than 10 minutes and all questions are optional and can be skipped. It will help us prioritise improvements to the training materials. Were currently focused on making it easier to prepare and give training.
Take the survey
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Updates from other initiatives
Join the ISCBacademy Webinar Series
In conjunction with the Communities of Special Interest (COSIs), selected presenters are invited to give a live-streamed talk about their research. Access to the webinar series is complimentary for all. Non-ISCB Members must register.
Alternative approach for discovering relationship between bacteriophages and antimicrobial resistance
With Roumyana Yordanova, Hokkaido University and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
5 October 2021 | Virtual, 17:00 CEST
Injecting life into visualizations for biomedical research
With Johannes Kepler, University Linz
12 October 2021 | Virtual, 17:00 CEST
Metabolic modelling of microbial interactions in microbiomes
With Aarthi Ravikrishnan, Karthik Raman and Dinesh Kumar
22 October 2021 | Virtual, 15:00 CEST
Upcoming ELIXIR events & webinars
ELIXIR Training Courses & Webinars
The ELIXIR TeSS portal has a variety of interesting events and courses organised by the ELIXIR Nodes. For more, visit TeSS portal
3D-Bioinfo Community webinar: Development of models for protein-ligand interactions
19 October 2021 | Virtual
ELIXIR Events and Conferences
BioHackathon Europe 2021
8-12 November 2021 | Hybrid Barcelona, Spain
Job vacancies
All vacancies are also published on the ELIXIR website (also including those from industry). If you need our help communicating your new open positions, you can submit a job advertisement and it will automatically appear on our newsletters. Go to our vacancy page to submit a job
Bioinformatician at the Biocomputing Unit
National Center of Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), part of INB/ELIXIR-ES
Software Developer
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